Peter Stace
Principal Software Engineer at Nearmap
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolPeter Stace is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Sydney with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, notably using Go across startups and finance. He currently leads architecture and delivery at Nearmap after progressing from senior engineer to principal, driving scalable services for geospatial imagery. His background includes low-latency market connectivity and options autotrading at Optiver and work on a distributed graph database at Dgraph Labs, reflecting strong distributed systems and protocol experience. Peter has hands-on leadership experience from leading engineering teams at Spaceship and mentoring engineers through production-grade system design. He favors pragmatic, performance-oriented engineering and brings a blend of finance-grade reliability and startup velocity to complex backend problems. A Gopher by inclination, he pairs deep Go expertise with a computer science degree from the University of Newcastle.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (169)
programming-language10
uuid-generator10
opengis10
code-completion10
interpreter10
graph-database10
bigtable10
nanoid10
uuid10
throughput10
specification10
h310
backend10
transactional10
latency10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
peterstace/upgrade-go-module
Sep 2021 - Dec 2024
A small utility to automate Go module upgrades
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 3 years 3 months
peterstace/grayt
Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:436 commits, 476 pushes, 34 branches in 4 years 9 months
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